A Day in the Life as a Physicist | REAL Physics Research at Cambridge
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- Опубликовано: 31 май 2024
- Here I show you a day in the life as physicist based on my PhD in the Physics at the University of Cambridge! We go inside a world-leading physics lab (with crazy lasers), I show you what my life/routine is like, and also show you how the scientific process REALLY works.
My PhD is based on understanding the fundamental physics of organic materials we could potentially use to build cheaper and more efficient solar panels to help develop renewable energy and solve the climate crisis.
00:00 Intro
00:22 Morning routine
01:15 Start lab work
03:23 Lunch
03:37 More labwork
06:19 Data analysis
10:38 Dinner & evening routine
11:28 Outtakes
A big thank you to my supervisor, Prof Akshay Rao, as well as Yorrick and Daniel for their help with the video.
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We need more depictions of scientists in movies where nothing works and use an unnecessary amount of expletives when describing their problems. I disagree with the idea that you've wasted a day if you spend it fighting problems and don't mange to get the experiment done. If everything is working as expected are you really even doing research?
damn thats true
I totally agree that we need more depictions of the struggles of science in popular media... It can be a very tough time. I also think if more were shown of that stuggle to get things right and overcome difficult problems then there generally would be more respect for scientists and the scientific findings they produce.
Love that you showed a timeline of how you started off excited, quickly got bogged down, decided to eat, still frustrated, but eventually hit something hours later. Exactly the same research process I go through. As my advisor always says, that’s the “re” in “research”! Always need a little caffeine to get you motivated again. Also, I have that same Thorlabs cup!!
I love how excited you and your colleagues are! Academia was my biggest disappointment, but it makes me happy to see there are still people passionate about it
Excellent content as always, great to see you back!!
Thanks! Happy to back as well... writing my thesis and then finding a job took its toll lol but I'm hoping to be more active from now on!
You are so lucky man, keep it up. I like your vlog
Thanks for Vids ,i Love this physical world experiments, i just dont have a clue,best of luck......
This is very fun. Thank you!
your videos are super helpful , keen to see more😊!
Thanks, glad it was helpful! :)
This is very well-presented and very good work environment💯🔥
Love your scientific research about helium
Great Video! Do theoretical neuroscience next :D
This video really too helps me to get some experience .
Make more videos like this
I like your videos
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This is really cool.
Thank you soooooo much
Day n+1 trying to correct the modern interpretation of Penrose diagrams, black holes and relativity 😂
can you stack solar panels to extract the maximum amount of power over a range of wavelengths from ultraviolet to infrared? and can you use a radioactive gamma ray source and reduce the frequency to a useable frequency or can you find a material that can be used to absorb the gamma ray energy and transform that directly into electricity
Great question! If you have a single material in your solar panel then yes, there is a theoretical limit of efficiency of turning sunlight energy into electricity. This limit is called the Shockley-Queisser limit and for silicon solar panels it's about 29%. To make high-efficiency solar panels (e.g. for the international space station), you're right in that scientists 'combine' multiple materials together to try to extract the maximum amount of power from the different wavelengths. As for the radioactive gamma ray sources, if your goal was to turn that energy into useful electricity, you're suggestion is also spot on - the best way is probably to use a scintillator which converts high energy gamma ray photons into many multiple lower-energy photons in the visible range. Those low energy photons could then be harvested using standard solar panels.
@@AlexanderSneyd can you invent a meta material to go around the limitations
Sounds like the dream daily routine for me. Still doing my degree in physics (currently in pause due to financial and health problems but soon resuming) and it seems basically imposible for me.. I guess for any Latam-trapped folk grown in poverty. Gonna fight for it as much as I can and hopefully I'll be lucky enough to make it :')
I also dreamed to be a physicist. But now im stuck in medics.
If you could have explained what was going wrong that would made the video a little more complete
Liverpool fans were hurt in the making of this video
give some advice for future scientist
How can I contact you please reply.. right now I am doing masters in physics..
Feel free to reach out to me on LinkedIn! :)
9:22 fourth line This in* turn
i want to go into nuclear engineering hopefully at cambridge or imperial. So its especially cool seeing somebody else who wants to help get rid of oil and coal from as much as possible
Smart and handsome
You're a Johnian. lucky u.
I'm enjoying the video until the last part when you reveal yourself as united fan. xD
Can i send akshay a cold mail for a project ????please ????
Feel free to send Akshay a cold email! Physics professors are in general very happy to hear from potential PhD students, or current researchers with interesting ideas for collaboration. Although I do know he's super busy atm so I can't guarantee you'll get a reply!
Haha i am also reading why we sleep albiet its in Audiobook format
Instead of helping it has actually given me sleep anxiety
I am also having fake awakenings lol
Thermodynamics ❤❤❤
This is lame… Are these guys paid for this?
One day this bunch of laser will be replaced by a smaller apparatus so anyone can use it. It will be the end of this kind of lame research.
wtf are you talking about?
@@thecoolguy3498 They are paid for nothing. They publish only to justify their salary. Those publications almost never lead to enhanced technology so it is basically useless. Every lab doing almost the same thing can’t bring anything new. This kind of research really sucks.
How much pot did you smoke ?
@@WonderersWondering much less than you did probably
Who hurt you man
Get sun in the eyes
Go to the dungeon
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